N.S. girl saved by off-duty nurse when rogue wave pulled her out to sea
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A nurse is being hailed a hero after her quick response saved the life of a 12-year-old who had been pulled out into the ocean by a rip current while enjoying a day at the beach.
A nurse is being hailed a hero after her quick response saved the life of a 12-year-old who had been pulled out into the ocean by a rip current while enjoying a day at the beach in Nova Scotia.
Now, Sarah Poulin is hoping to find the nurse who saved her daughter’s life in order to properly thank her.
Sarah’s 12-year-old daughter Fiona went to Conrad Beach, just over half an hour east of Halifax, on Wednesday with a family friend and her daughter.
“I was just in the water with my friend, and we were just jumping waves. One wave was too big for me to jump, so I just wanted to swim it. That one ended up taking me out to sea, and I didn’t notice until I couldn’t touch the ground,” Fiona recalled.
Fiona was so far out that everyone on the beach looked like “specks.”
“It was pretty hard because the waves were, like, up to the ceiling, and they were just one after another, so I had almost no time to breathe, so I tried to stay on top of the waves. It was pretty hard to stay afloat,” Fiona said.
Realizing she was caught in a rip current, Fiona tried swimming diagonally back to shore but found she was not getting any closer.
Just trying to stay afloat, Fiona was treading water while she tried to signal for help.
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